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Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…
Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of a self-denying heart, delivered in a treatise upon Hebrews II, 25, 26 / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by John Field, 1650
Moses his Choice. › Part 1 › Chapter 15: The true pleasantness of all the ways of godliness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But if it be said in the third place, But there are many hard things that Gods people do meet withal in the ways of godliness, and the ways of godliness 1put them upon such things as cause them to meet 2with sore temptations and trials here in the world; how then can the ways of godliness be so pleasant?
But if it be said in the third place, But there are many hardthings that Gods people do meet withal in the ways of godliness, and the ways of godliness 1put them upon such things as cause them to meet 2with sore temptations and trials here in the world; how then can the ways of godliness be so pleasant?
- 1Quest.
- 23.
To that I answer, Here is a mighty commendation 1to the pleasantness of the ways of Religion, notwithstanding the hardest, and sorest things a godly heart meets with; there is that delight in the ways of godliness, as upholds the heart under all, and carries the heart sweetly on. What commendation was it to the grace in the hearts of the Martyrs, that did uphold their hearts, and carry their hearts sweetly in the enduring of such hard things?
- 1Answ.